Kinda cheating, since you've already heard twice from mad metal scientist Ron Jarzombek with 80's tech-thrash pioneers WatchTower and his own project Spastic Ink, but I'm afraid I can't help but share this latest impressive band of his. Like Ron's previous projects, they're progressive, and display breathtaking technical proficiency, but this instrumental offering is steeped in death metal, where his earlier forays were much thrashier. Blotted Science also features bassist Alex Webster (of Cannibal Corpse and recently Conquering Dystopia) and have gone through a number of drummers, with Charlie Zeleny and Hannes Grossmann (of Obscura) appearing on their two recordings respectively.
Aside the obvious chops, Blotted Science also shows off an advanced understanding of music composition. I'm going to show you both in the videos I was lucky enough to find at YouTube below, all from their most recent release, 2011's EP, The Animation of Entomology. The first is an explanation and demonstration of the 12-tone row and its treatments in the song "Cretaceous Chasm".
If you enjoyed that music theory lesson, there's a similar one of one of the shorter songs from their first release, The Machinations of Dementia, entitled "Oscillation Cycles". Next up is a mind-blowing video of drummer Hannes Grossmann recording his part for "Ingesting Blatteria" for the EP.
Finally, all of these songs (and indeed all 7 on the EP) are actually musical renditions of insect horror scenes from film - mostly B movies, which track exactly with the films, a la Pink Floyd's famous Dark Side of the Rainbow, but more complete and obviously intentional. Here's the track "Vermicular Asphyxiation" synched up with some particularly grotesque video from B-movie homage, horror-comedy film Slither. If you can stomach it, it's pretty impressive.
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